The Wrecked Schooner Gold
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Steam Navigation Board have exonerated the captain of the schooner Gold from all blame in connection with the foundering of that vessel off Flinders…
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Wreck of a Steamer. Twelve Lives Lost
London, Thursday.--News has just been received here that one of the regular steamers running on the line between Newhaven and Dieppe ran ashore…
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News has just been received here that one of the regular steamers running between Newhaven and Dieppe ran ashore on the rocks near Dieppe, and became a total…
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At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. W. F. Addison. S.M. Wm. A. Knowles, master of the s.s. Namoi, answered to a charge of carrying 222 more than the regulation…
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London, Tuesday.--The Peninsular and Oriental Company's R.M.S. Tasmania struck some rocks off the island of Carica on Saturday and the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →(Reuter's Telegram.) the Wreck of the R.m.s. Tasmania. London, April 19
Further details regarding the stranding of the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Tasmania state that the loss of life was considerable; the captain and fifth officer, one of the…
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London, Tuesday.--Further details regarding the stranding of the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Tasmania state that the loss of life was considerable;…
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Many handsome and speedy vessels have been built at one or other of the various yards in the harbour of Port Jackson: and it will be a matter for experts to decide whether the new steamer that has just been constructed by Mr. James Halstead, at his…
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News has just been received here that one of the regular steamers running between Newhaven and Dieppe ran ashore on the rocks near Dieppe, and became a total…
Continued on Trove, page 846 →The Wreck off the Steam Launch "Mary."
There wasn't any wreck, as it happened, when that tight little craft the "Mary" went up Middle Harbour the other day, nor was any expected; but of course there might have…
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Advices are to hand stating that the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Tasmania on Saturday sight stranded on the Marachi Rocks, off the Island of Corsica. The women and children…
Continued on Trove, page 846 →Supposed Wreck of the Glaslyn
The Merchants' Shipping and Underwriters Association, Limited, have received a cablegram from Sourabaya, April 22, stating that news has been received there that the barque Glaslyn,…
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London, Thursday.--All the passengers from the R.M.S. Tasmania were safely landed at Marseilles this morning by the company's steamer Chusan,…
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LONDON, April 18.—Advices are to hand stating that the Peninsular and Oriental Company's R.M.S. Tasmania stranded on Saturday night on the Marachi Rocks, off the island of Corsica. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wereck of the Steamer Waitaki. [By Cable.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland
The steamer Waitaki, belonging to the Kama Coal Company, has been wreked at Cape Polliser, on the voyage from Napier to Wellington. No lives were lost. The Waitaki was formerly one of the Union…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.--The coasting steamet Waitaki has been wrecked off Cape Palliser, on her voyage between Napier and Wellington. No lives were lost. The Waitaki was insured…
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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Jehu Williams, shipowner of this city, received intelligence by k cable from Hongkong of the loss of the schooner Ettalong while on a voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Summary for Europe, Per Orient Company's Steamer Oroya. Political
Obstructive tactics have made their appearance in the Legislative Assembly, and it is thought that the Government will before long be compelled to introduce some strong measures to enable them to proceed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Later News From the East. the Steamer Benton Run Down. 150 Persons Drowned. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
The following Eastern advices have been received by the R.M.S. Dorunda, via Cooktown:— On the night of the 29th March, between Formosa Bank and Batu Papat, the steamor Benton was run…
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COOKTOWN, Friday.--The cutter Eclipse, or Melbourne, chartered by Mr. Davis to accompany the Spey on the scientific expedition to New Guinea, has been completely broken up…
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